SEALED Vintage Parlophone Analog LP Beatles For Sale

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The Beatles
Beatles For Sale
Sealed British Import LP in

Immaculate Condition

    This is a Factory Sealed EMI Parlophone Import LP with No Bar Code, no doubt pressed in the ’70s (on the EMI Parlophone two box label).   The cover is GORGEOUS with square corners and NO SEAM SPLITS whatsoever. The loose shrink is intact and perfect as far as I can see, with no tears of any kind.  I can find no fault with this one!   A true COLLECTOR QUALITY COPY if I've ever seen one.
 
We are BIG FANS of this album here at Better Records; we just do not understand why some don’t find it as appealing as we do. To us it’s every bit as good as Hard Day’s Night or Help, the albums that came before and after, respectively.

As you can read from the commentary below, in the past we've found copies of this record that sound absolutely OUT OF THIS WORLD. We were tempted to crack this one open and check the stampers, but we decided it might be more fun to leave that to you. All the commentary is here, all you gotta do is crack this bad boy open, clean it up, cue up the needle and see if you hit the jackpot.

We always love to hear from a satisfied customer. So if this does turn out to be a hot copy, don't hesitate to fire us an email and tell us all about it. (If it doesn't we'd naturally like to know that too.)

Hey, Sir George: We Respectfully Disagree

We've been spending a lot of time reading The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, which details the band's studio history from 1962 - 1970. In the book, George Martin mentions that he felt this album was a rush job and that he has trouble listening to it to this day. As much respect as we have for Sir George, we couldn't disagree more. This album is WONDERFUL! The more we played this album, the more we enjoyed it. Repeated listenings only enhanced our enjoyment. This isn't the kind of record that beats you over the head with mega pop hits sure to enthrall screaming teens. With wonderful songs like I'll Follow The Sun, Eight Days A Week, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party and What You're Doing, this album gives you a glimpse at the more heartfelt side of the band. It's an extremely sweet and delicate album.

A Wonderfully Fun Album

Of all the Beatle records that we play around here, this, along with Abbey Road and perhaps Please Please Me, is one of the most enjoyable shootouts.The music is so good and, unlike so much of their material from this period, hasn't been played to death. You might even call it the undiscovered album. Everyone knows The White Album and Sgt. Pepper's like the back of their hands, but what about Beatles For Sale? Just look at this great lineup of songs. What's not to like?

The Beatles and Half-Speed Mastering

At the risk of being definitive about things that are better left ill-defined, I would say that the Number One quality we look for in a pressing is that element of Life or Energy. We can put up with many shortcomings, including even some tonality problems, but when a record fails to convey the spirit and enthusiasm of the musicians, it's pretty much over.

The most serious fault of the typical Half-Speed Mastered LP is not tonal incorrectness or poor bass definition, although you will have a hard time finding one that doesn't suffer from both. It's Dead As A Doornail sound, plain and simple. And most Heavy Vinyl pressings coming down the pike these days are as guilty of this sin as their audiophile forerunners from the '70s. The average Sundazed record I throw on my turntable sounds like it's playing in another room. What audiophile in his right mind could possibly find that quality appealing? But Sundazed and other companies just like them keep turning out this crap. Somebody must be buying it.

So how does the famous MOFI pressing sound? In a word, clean, and better than any Japanese or domestic pressing we heard. But it's dead, man. It's just so dead.  AMG Review

There are some important changes on Beatles for Sale, most notably Lennon's discovery of Bob Dylan and folk-rock. The opening three songs, along with "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party," are implicitly confessional and all quite bleak, which is a new development... Its best moments find them moving from Merseybeat to the sophisticated pop/rock they developed in mid-career. TRACK LISTING Side One

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I’m a Loser
Baby’s in Black
Track Commentary

This song tends to be a bit dull on many pressings of this album, but on a superb copy, you'll get some wonderful tubey magical copies -- you should hear plenty of warmth and life.

Rock & Roll Music
I’ll Follow the Sun
Track Commentary

In our opinion, this song would have to be on any list of Beatles' very best songs. On a good copy, the vocals are sweet and delicate beyond belief. Paul pops the mic on one word in this song -- if your system has reasonable resolution and bottom end speed, you should be able to pick it out. Drop us a line if you can tell us what word it is -- we're curious to know if you hear what we heard!

Mr. Moonlight
Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! [medley]

Side Two

Eight Days a Week
Words of Love
Track Commentary

A tough track to get right. There are some very present jangly guitars behind the smooth voices. Many copies seem to sacrifice one for the other, leaving you with either irritating guitars or dull voices.

Honey Don’t
Every Little Thing
I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party
What You’re Doing
Track Commentary

On many copies we played this song was just a bit smeared. You want to be able to hear the space between the notes when the piano is played briskly. On the most transparent copies, you'll be able to hear each time the piano's hammer hit the strings. This track is also a good test for punchiness -- with that big kick drum in the intro, it won't take you long to figure out if you've got a meaty bottom end.

Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby
NOTE ON PACKING AND SHIPPING You will never receive a record from us packed in a flimsy cardboard mailer. We use HEAVY DUTY oversized cardboard boxes with cardboard protectors sandwiching the record and plenty of bubble wrap all around. After more than twenty years in the record business one thing we know is how to pack records properly, so rest assured the package will arrive at your door safe and sound.

This is a factory sealed record, long out of print. This record cannot be guaranteed against defects of any kind once opened. This item is only sold "as is".

 

 

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